Jay-Z Meets Zelda

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Here at The Dilla, we’re big fans of when hip-hop and videogames collide. Check out this mashup of Jay-Z’s Roc Boys and a track from The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening from Aquma’s Jay-Zelda: Beat’s Awakening project.

(via Bitmob)

Premakes

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Premakes: remakes remade in the past.

They’re like video mashups – but with an olde timey feel – pioneered by filmmaker WhoIsEyevan (Ivan Guerrero).

This concept just might replace the now-stale Sweded movie trend that swept through YouTube over a year and a half ago

Ghostbusters (1954):

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1951):

Forest Gump (1949):

(via the always cool Roughly Daily)

Ragtime Piano Meets 80’s Hits

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Some of the best hits from the 80’s, performed in the turn of the century style of ragtime piano. Talk about a mashup!

Track List:

  • Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Come on Eileen
  • Human League – Don’t You Want Me Baby
  • Europe – The Final Countdown
  • Harold Faltermeyer – Axel F
  • Madonna – Material Girl
  • The Police – Every Breath You Take
  • Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’
  • Bon Jovi – Living on a Prayer
  • Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up
  • Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart

(via Levy)

Cooking by the Book (What?!? . . . Ye-ah!)

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Best. Mashup. Ever.
Cooking by the Book (Lil’ Bigger Mix)” by Mastgrr.
Several months old, it is still standing the test of time.
Give it 25 seconds.
NSFW

Torture friends: Put it on your cellphone.

I’m enamored with the idea of Lil Jon violating an Icelandic children’s program (Lazytown).
. . . nevermind the girl is in pink cosplay hair.

bythebook

We Rappin’ About PRACTICE

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Steve Porter, the man behind the brilliant Slap Chop Rap Remix, strikes again:

(via Skee.E.O. Evan)

Star Wars in the 50s

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

Check out this great remix of the Star Wars title sequence as if it were made by Saul Bass in 1955. The song is “Machine” by the Buddy Rich Band. Enjoy!

(via Dan)

Now You Know: Kutiman

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

According to TechCrunch (and my friend Fritz who tipped me off), Kutiman can be considered to be the first musician ‘born’ on Twitter (check out the buzz). After 3 months scouring YouTube and other video sharing sites to find sweet samples of singers and instruments (guitars, drums, harps, harmonicas, pianos, something called a ‘bouzouki’ and more), Kutiman chopped up, mashed up, blended– whatever you want to call it– more than 100 video clips to make music from Thru-You, an innovative and massively cool mashup EP that is definitely worth checking out.

Here’s one of Kutiman’s music videos– truly impressive:

Kutiman: The Mother of All Funk Chords